Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett 
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari  wrote:

> I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
> it?

P.S. Please see:

   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pigsonthewing#File_tagging_File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katherine Maher is now CEO and ED of the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-02-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette 
This is a common sense, reasonable update.  Nice work. :)

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:21 AM María Sefidari 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> When the Wikimedia Foundation was first established, the head of the
> organization was assigned the title of Executive Director (ED). In the US,
> this is the standard title for non-profit leaders, and made sense for the
> organization at the time.
>
> This week, at our Board meeting, we made a decision to change to this
> convention. We resolved to change Katherine Maher’s title to Chief
> Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Director. She retains the title of
> Executive Director, and is also now the CEO of the Foundation. She can use
> either, or both, titles to describe her position.
>
> This was an easy decision to make, for a number of reasons.
>
> As our movement has grown in the world, we’ve found that the title of ED is
> not as easily understood outside the United States. As a Board with many
> non-US people, many of us already used the term CEO to describe Katherine’s
> responsibilities. While still an English-language term, it is a very common
> term for many global organizations.
>
> The CEO title is increasingly common in US non-profits as well, especially
> larger ones. This is increasingly considered best practice, as a way to
> communicate that the work of non-profit organizations is as serious,
> complex, and worthy of respect as that of for-profit organizations. For
> example, Creative Commons, one of our closest allies, uses the title of
> CEO.
>
> As the Foundation already uses the convention of “chief officer” for the
> leaders of its internal departments (Chief Financial Officer, Chief
> Technology Officer), it also makes sense. An executive director would be
> the most senior director, whereas a chief executive officer is the most
> senior of the officers.
>
> The Board’s Human Resources Committee recommended this change and reviewed
> the details. As this is an update to Katherine’s title, and not a change in
> her duties as an officer, it does not require an update to the Bylaws or a
> wider consultation.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees is very supportive of this
> change, as we believe this title better reflects the scope of Katherine’s
> duties over Executive Director alone. This will better support her work
> with global partners and leaders around the world, helping to share our
> vision and supporting the strategic direction of Wikimedia in new markets.
> Katherine’s job is not changing in any other sense.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> María
>
> --
>
> María Sefidari Huici
>
> Chair of the Board
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Gregory Varnum 
The reason why her photo had not yet been uploaded to Commoms is rather simple. 
The staff that were going to do it (thank you for doing it) are attending the 
organization’s All Hands event. Getting the information out was our focus, and 
we will be updating other places early next week. I hope folks can appreciate 
our desire to focus on the event and immediate dissemination of information. :)

For what it is worth, we do make an effort to ourselves take and make available 
a freely licensed photo of board members. However, photo shoots are not always 
the best use of our in-person time with board members. We are looking into ways 
to expedite the process and do them outside in-person gatherings.

I will pass the comment about page design to our design folks. Thank you for 
the feedback and I hope the above helps answer your questions. :)

-greg

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> On Feb 1, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari  wrote:
>> 
>> El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett 
>> escribió:
> 
>>> Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
>>> on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
>>> image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
>>> which uses the image, saying
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/
>>> 
>>> saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
>>> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
>>> license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
>>> not) been released under an open licence.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
>> it?
> 
> Thank you. I didn't; I stand corrected, and apologise.
> 
> However, I think the reason that I didn't see it is that it is
> disconnected from the body of the page by two very long sections; one
> (more than a screen deep on my machine) being a pink-backgrounded
> solicitation for donations; the other an entreaty to join a  mailing
> list. Neither relates to the subject of the article, and once I
> reached them I assumed the article had ended. The large version of the
> image, at the head of the page, neither mentions nor links to the
> credits section.
> 
> Perhaps the page design needs to be revisited, to make the credits
> section more apparent? Has any user testing of this aspect been
> undertaken?
> 
> Is there a reason this open-licensed image had not been uploaded to
> Wikimedia Commons? (I've now done so, as:
> 
>   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg )
> 
> -- 
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Katherine Maher is now CEO and ED of the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-02-01 Thread Pine W 
Maria,

Thanks for the explanation. I think that people would have asked questions
if no one explained the change. I for one usually appreciate communication
happening sooner rather than later.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Results from Punjabi Wikisource Proofreading Contest

2019-02-01 Thread Rupika Sharma 
Hello Everyone,

It is with great pride I would like to share great news with the community.
We did Proofreading contest in Punjabi Wikisource from 21 December 2018 -
31 January 2019 and we have record breaking results.

Starting from 300 proofread pages per month with only about 4-5 editors,
and almost 0 editors with 50+ editors in October, we only had 1269 pages
proofread since past 2 years.

After the contest, we now have community of 24 editors with 50+ edits and
35 participants that joined us via outreach programs and workshops . We
were able to get 5100+ pages proofread in 40 days, making us the fastest
and the most active Wikisource community in India. And as per the latest
stats, we are also the fastest growing Wikisource community globally in
terms of growth and third most active community in terms of pages proofread
after 40 days of the contest. We will continue to validate the proofread
pages from the contest in the next couple months to maintain quality and
reliability.

We hope we can continue to grow and advance the mission of free knowledge
from Punjabi Community.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikisource_Contest
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilover90/Wikisource_editors_stats_with_50_%2B_edits
[4]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=30&fbclid=IwAR07Yf3ND-YKlivLQ3f4nDiQ4D2OerJqbkO5Fj3_KHa1eTqconQaZ_JsCwc
[5]
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats/Oct2018-Jan2019

Best Regards,
Rupika Sharma
User:Wikilover90
Punjabi Wikimedians
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[Wikimedia-l] Katherine Maher is now CEO and ED of the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-02-01 Thread María Sefidari 
Dear all,

When the Wikimedia Foundation was first established, the head of the
organization was assigned the title of Executive Director (ED). In the US,
this is the standard title for non-profit leaders, and made sense for the
organization at the time.

This week, at our Board meeting, we made a decision to change to this
convention. We resolved to change Katherine Maher’s title to Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Director. She retains the title of
Executive Director, and is also now the CEO of the Foundation. She can use
either, or both, titles to describe her position.

This was an easy decision to make, for a number of reasons.

As our movement has grown in the world, we’ve found that the title of ED is
not as easily understood outside the United States. As a Board with many
non-US people, many of us already used the term CEO to describe Katherine’s
responsibilities. While still an English-language term, it is a very common
term for many global organizations.

The CEO title is increasingly common in US non-profits as well, especially
larger ones. This is increasingly considered best practice, as a way to
communicate that the work of non-profit organizations is as serious,
complex, and worthy of respect as that of for-profit organizations. For
example, Creative Commons, one of our closest allies, uses the title of CEO.

As the Foundation already uses the convention of “chief officer” for the
leaders of its internal departments (Chief Financial Officer, Chief
Technology Officer), it also makes sense. An executive director would be
the most senior director, whereas a chief executive officer is the most
senior of the officers.

The Board’s Human Resources Committee recommended this change and reviewed
the details. As this is an update to Katherine’s title, and not a change in
her duties as an officer, it does not require an update to the Bylaws or a
wider consultation.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees is very supportive of this
change, as we believe this title better reflects the scope of Katherine’s
duties over Executive Director alone. This will better support her work
with global partners and leaders around the world, helping to share our
vision and supporting the strategic direction of Wikimedia in new markets.
Katherine’s job is not changing in any other sense.

Kind regards,

María

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Chair of the Board

Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish 
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:45:00 +0100
María Sefidari  wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> Lewin as our newest Trustee!
> 
> Lisa Lewin is Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based
> management consulting firm. She has worked in strategic growth and
> development her whole career, helping launch new ventures and increase the
> impact and growth potential of legacy businesses. Her professional focus
> has always been at the intersection of technology and learning - and we are
> very fortunate to have her as a part of our team!
> 
> Below is the official announcement.[1] Welcome, Lisa, and I look forward to
> working with you!

welcome, and good luck!

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ability. And we cannot be sure about the former thanks to the latter.
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Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett 
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 13:58, María Sefidari  wrote:
>
> El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett 
> escribió:

> > Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
> > on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
> > image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
> > which uses the image, saying
> >
> >
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/
> >
> > saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
> > licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
> > license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
> > not) been released under an open licence.
> >
>
> I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
> it?

Thank you. I didn't; I stand corrected, and apologise.

However, I think the reason that I didn't see it is that it is
disconnected from the body of the page by two very long sections; one
(more than a screen deep on my machine) being a pink-backgrounded
solicitation for donations; the other an entreaty to join a  mailing
list. Neither relates to the subject of the article, and once I
reached them I assumed the article had ended. The large version of the
image, at the head of the page, neither mentions nor links to the
credits section.

Perhaps the page design needs to be revisited, to make the credits
section more apparent? Has any user testing of this aspect been
undertaken?

Is there a reason this open-licensed image had not been uploaded to
Wikimedia Commons? (I've now done so, as:

   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lisa_Lewin.jpg )

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread María Sefidari 
El vie., 1 feb. 2019 14:30, Andy Mabbett 
escribió:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:45, María Sefidari 
> wrote:
>
> > I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> > Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> > Lewin as our newest Trustee!
>
> Now on Wikidata as:
>
>https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61295542
>
> Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
> on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
> image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
> which uses the image, saying
>
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/
>
> saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
> license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
> not) been released under an open licence.
>

I'm not sure I follow Andy - there is a Photo Credits section, did you see
it?


> I feel for WMF staff when some members of the community continually
> criticise what they do; but I'm sure I'm not the first person to quite
> reasonably point out that WMF really ought to lead by example in being
> clear about licensing, and making media available freely wherever
> possible.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2019-02-01 Thread Andy Mabbett 
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 20:45, María Sefidari  wrote:

> I am  very happy to share news with you of our latest appointment to the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Please join me in welcoming Lisa
> Lewin as our newest Trustee!

Now on Wikidata as:

   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61295542

Unfortunately we don't seem to have a free image of Lisa; the one used
on the Wikimedia blog is the same as her long-standing Twitter profile
image and, despite the footer on the WMF post about her appointment:,
which uses the image, saying

  
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/31/wikimedia-foundation-announces-lisa-lewin-as-new-trustee/

saying "Except where otherwise noted, the content of this site is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
license.", there is no explicit indication that it has (nor indeed has
not) been released under an open licence.

I feel for WMF staff when some members of the community continually
criticise what they do; but I'm sure I'm not the first person to quite
reasonably point out that WMF really ought to lead by example in being
clear about licensing, and making media available freely wherever
possible.

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[Wikimedia-l] Participate in Wiki Loves Love 2019

2019-02-01 Thread Rupika Sharma 
Hello everyone,

The wait is over, Wiki Loves Love 2019 Commons contest starts today and
will run till 28th February 11:59 UTC.

The theme of the contest is festivals, celebrations, rituals and ceremonies
of love.

Help us document love in different cultures. For more information, check
out our Commons page:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2019

Additionally, Team WLL requests your assistance for translation of banner
of Wiki Loves Love 2019. Please help us make it available in as many as
languages as possible.Thank you!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-wikiloveslove2019banner&task=view&language=fr&filter=%21translated&action=translate

Best Regards and lots of love,
Rupika Sharma
Co-ordinator
Wiki Loves Love
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